It's Not Over Until The Fat Lady Sings...

Or is cuffed. Either way. The Bernie Spring continues as bit longer, as hopeful lefties bash Hillary. This is Salon:

Hillary’s primary success is a sham: Bernie Sanders will remain the true Democratic front-runner until the FBI finishes its Investigation

It's not over until the FBI clears Hillary Clinton— which it absolutely shouldn't

The FBI won't clear her but the Justice Department won't indict her either. I back the CW, which predicts that top FBI officials resign in protest.

Comments

[NK]

Where is the Conventional Wisdom about resignations to be found? What about Comey recommending to Lynch a Special Counsel be appointed to present to a Grand Jury?

[henry]

What, Hillary is singing now? Does the Geneva Convention allow this?

[Thomas Collins]

If this hasn't been quashed by now, The Hill is in a bit of trouble. I wonder whether Team Hill and Team Val are working together to try to quash this.

In any event, I retain hope that The Hill's lawyers are at this very moment negotiating the pardon/drop out of the race deal with DOJ and Team Val (but I repeat myself).

If The Hill goes down, Comrade's cultists are going to be really ticked off when the Dem pooh-bahs try to engineer the Comrade out of the top spot and install Joe Biden as Chairman of Presidium.

[Hope for Justice springs eternal, though.]

Nope, no resignations. Press was against Nixon; it's for Hillary now.

[Captain Hate]

Libs on Zuckerberg really really hate Rodham. It's like both parties are trying to [Redacted] over their respective bases as much as possible.

I'm very heartened at how much flak The Omen has been taking. There's something about being an entitled dullard that's perfectly realized in an extremely unattractive covering.

[Free James D.]

I might actually hate the Omen more than her parents. And I hate them a heck of a lot.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

I go with TM. If there was going to be a clean slate, the FBI would have cleared her weeks ago. The fact it is taking so long means to me they are building a fool-proof (political fools) case against her. So what, it takes it past the convention (I hope so) and it becomes an October surprise. Wouldn't be to me at all.

She really is a phony.

[NK]

Janet/JamesD-- going to the waaay back machine. My Law School Hood days, 1980-1982. Farthest orange/red brick building apt 810, 2 Bdr share with terrace overlooking TeddyR and Mem Bridges and the Mall. Guess the rent?

[NK]

here's the link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/LCWS/@38.893053,-77.068437,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s-i1tcRjQeWSM%2FVjEJ-UDLhJI%2FAAAAAAAAABA%2FMLAj4blDOEo!2e4!3e12!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-i1tcRjQeWSM%2FVjEJ-UDLhJI%2FAAAAAAAAABA%2FMLAj4blDOEo%2Fs114-k-no%2F!7i2048!8i1536!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x89b7b42481e0bdc9:0x1923d7de0cb6e6a0!2s671+N+Glebe+Rd,+Arlington,+VA+22203!3b1!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x7dd7a72727056073!6m1!1e1

[NK]

and overlooking Georgetown, and Nat'l airport natch.

[Miss Marple]

Frau, I am with you. At least the Omen's parents were elected. She is just a nothing who feels entitled to spout off.

[NK]

I probably shopped in OL owned stores in Arlington/Rosslyn.

OL-- did I ever tell my Jean Dixon story? Did you know her back in the day?

[Porchlight]

Oh, so The Omen is Chelsea. Got it. Makes sense now actually.

She sucks. The bitchy entitlement of her mother and none of the earthy charm of her father.

[Free James D.]

NL, 1982?

I'll guess $400 a month.

[maryrose]

Porch:
Well said!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The ECB, enraged that the Chinese communists have outpaced them in government intervention, have set up an entity to directly buy corporate bonds...theoretically of any company on earth, so long as it has an SPV in Europe.

[maryrose]

NK
Law School in 82?
Wow I am a lot older than you.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Illegal immigration up a mere 78-130%, YoY.

[Miss Marple]

Cruz campaign has coirmed more campaign stops on Saturday, according to local TV.

[GOPe]

Don't worry, Ig. All those illegals are just jonesin' hard start their own businesses and can't wait to pay taxes and live the American dream.

[maryrose]

Romney was right.
There are makers and takers
The truth hurts sometimes and isn't pretty

[maryrose]

I have seen in person Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin ,Paul Ryan, and John McCain. Guess which person impressed me the least?

[lyle]

"Earthy charm," Porch? Is that what we're calling STDs now? ;)

[lyle]

Is that a trick question, maryrose?

[Miss Marple]

I am not guessing, Maryrose. Whatever I say will be bound to insult someone.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

I am going with Sarah Palin, maryrose. Just because it is the least likely choice.

[newlurker]

Being that it's you, maryrose, I am also going with Palin.

[NK]

JamesD- $400/each, $800/month total.

[maryrose]

Actually it was John McCain.
New Lurker:
What did you mean by seeing that it is you?
You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

[maryrose]

Lyle
Not a trick question.
I am just evaluating what I took away as authentic and honest.

[maryrose]

MM
All of us because of the respect we have for each other should feel free to post our opinion.

[RIF]

Uh oh.

>>
Ann CoulterVerified account
‏@AnnCoulter
I wish Trump would go back to retweeting juvenile photos of Heidi Cruz. I hate the new Manafort & Black Trump.
3:02 PM - 22 Apr 2016

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We wanted Trump to stress his presidential side, not become a division of Manafort & Black.
3:03 PM - 22 Apr 2016
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[maryrose]

Manafort said that the Trump persona displayed to the public is a pretense or a phony self.
Why would a presidential candidate need to do this?
The only people I intensely dislike are the Clintons
All actions should have consequences.
Their actions and comments never do.

[maryrose]

It has been a busy day so I am a little late getting over to the Ledge.
Will report in shortly.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

All those people dead in Piketon, OH?

I wonder who of them worked in the Uranium enrichment plant there?

You know where I am going with this, right?

[Miss Marple]

Well, for some time, Maryrose, the gripe has been that Trump is a vulgarian and not presidential.

Now when his adviser says this was stagecraft and he will be presidential, everyone is all upset about that.

Personally, I would be glad to see a different version of Cruz without the Jimmy Swaggart flourishes, but that's just me. I wouldn't accuse Cruz of being a liar if he changed; I would simply be relieved.

[Truthbetold]

Trump Walks Back Pledge to Eliminate $19 Trillion National Debt Just Weeks After He Made the Promise

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/22/trump-walks-back-pledge-to-eliminate-19-trillion-national-debt-just-weeks-after-he-made-the-promise/

[Thomas Collins]

Tough to tell about NK's age, maryrose. NK could have taken time off before law school.

[NK]

Born 1957

[Theo]

Wise beyond your years NK.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Only 1+ years older than me?
How come you sound like a cranky old geezer? ;P

[NK]

Current $19T? Le Donald says "And you can do it in refinancings"... hmmm... theoretically sure, but almost all of the $19 has already been refinanced at virtually $0% , so refinancing it will likely cost more %. I assume Jack Lew's weenies have planned that the $21T DEBT they leave behind will never bee redeemed, and instead the Treasury will ride those Bonds to maturity so that the % is a fixed part of the annual budget. New debt? that will be at a higher %rate, so ADDITIONAL borrowing costs will be prohibitively expensive. This is the fundamental component of OPM Famine. Tax base shrinks, borrowing ability dries up, interest payments eat up bigger and bigger part of budget. BOOM... OPM is gone.

[narciso]

of course, he lambastes those who make this point,

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/obama-uncontrolled-migration-a-major-national-security-issue.php

[NK]

GET OFF MY LAWN IGNATZ!!!

[Buckeye]

JiB

Back in the middle 70's I worked on a team that built a robot with an ultrasonic sensor for inspecting reactor vessel welds. B & W was the client. Took 2 tractor trailers to move it. Electronics were packaged in 13 enclosures the size of Subzero refrigerators. High tech then, probably less compute power than my phone today.

My best buddy and co-worker got the "honor" of running this beast. They would take the lid off the reactor and bolt the robot on top. Run the sensor around and collect data.

He obviously had to suit up and wear the dosimeter tags. Got relieved of the responsibilty after a few trips because he had reached the limits.

I never volunteered;)

Your comment about Piketon reminded my of that experience.

[lyle]

Ig and I are the same age. Waaaay younger than NK. Ortus anno 1958.

[NK]

Obummer's 'out of control migration' Rhetoric; he really is that dumb, he just reads the TOTUS, he knows not what it means.

[NK]

those ca 1958 younguns... no respect for their elders.

[lyle]

BTW, I don't speak Latin. I just looked it up on Teh Googles: birth year = ortus anno. My cleverness is a ruse.

[lyle]

But then you knew that!

[maryrose]

Yegads
You mean I am older than Iggy and Lyle too?
Actually you guys are my youngest sister's age.
MM
Why can't a candidate for the presidency just be themselves?
I like to know which person I am voting for in the election booth.
Now to further muddy the waters I may do some calls for Kasich this weekend.
I must sound bipolar at this point.

[maryrose]

When you make the calls you are actually listing the. Names of the delegates for Pennsylvania.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I hope you're going to be telling the people you call not to vote for Cliff Clavin, maryrose.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

Buckeye,

Oh, pangs of nostalgia. I was the closest sr.engineer to the reactor at Calvert Clifs when I got the call. Had to interrupt Memorial Day to go in at night and take off the cladding. All fitted with suitcase snaps. We had a boron leak. Spent so much time in the containment I was relieve of that duty for a full year.

Remember the first law of health physics? You wash you hands before you pee.

[narciso]

miss marple's remarks re the moloch worshipers, reminded me of this,

http://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-12.htm

[narciso]

terry bean, is a precursor of this fellow,

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/happy-earth-day-co-founder-murdered-composted-his-girlfriend/#comments

[Theo]

Ignatz --

Young man, I apologize for the fact that TM keeps adding new threads before I can respond to your posts on the old ones.

To review, I asked if you were serious with the suggestion that every registered Democrat should be sent to re education camp in Alaska and put in deadly peril of ever seeing home again. Your answer included the following:

"I of course do not think a gulag on our side of the Bering Sea will be literally necessary but we may very well need a violent revolution to save the nation."

My first reaction is that your suggestion that the Democrats could prevent a revolution if they abandoned their current beliefs is that that is simply not going to happen. Progs are going to be progs and will not return to some past era when their views were more acceptable to us.

My second reaction is that I do not think that the conditions are right for a violent revolution. Too many people today have a continued faith in the electoral process to take up arms. I understand that you do not share that faith, but at this point a call to arms would cause most people to shun anyone who advocated such a thing.

My third reaction is to question why you think that if it came to a contest of arms that our side would win? Armed conflicts are generally won by the side with youth and vigor. People under 30, the prime age for actual warriors, vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Conservatives do best among older demographics. Presumably if things advanced to armed conflict we would find ourselves seriously outnumbered among those with the vigor for armed conflict.

[Threadkiller]

Why can't a candidate for the presidency just be themselves?

I thing Romney was being himself when he failed to defend his wife and lost the election.

I also think McCain was being himself when he said there is no reason to be afraid of an Obama Presidency and lost the election.

[narciso]

and this why the pulitzer's are blanc mange,

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/232089/#respond

[Threadkiller]

http://www.weaselzippers.us/268006-london-mayor-accused-of-dog-whistle-racism-for-saying-obama-part-kenyan/

[narciso]

lawfare never goes out of fashion,

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hearing-set-lawsuit-against-cia-interrogation-program-architects-110906555.html

[Buckeye]

JiB

Can't remember all the places our robot was used, but Savanna River was one.

My buddy never had any kids of his own, maybe he forgot the first law of health physics;)

[narciso]

don't let red queen review it,

http://www.investigativeproject.org/5325/prosecutors-isis-ebook-helped-inspire-aborted#

[narciso]

news from the back page,

https://twitter.com/thomasjoscelyn/status/723095809017794560

so last night on legends, the team barely survived being erased from history in the past,

[narciso]

well it's something,

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/tom-cotton-holds-white-house-accountable-on-iran.php

[Porchlight]

Manafort said that the Trump persona displayed to the public is a pretense or a phony self.

I didn't interpret what he said that way. I thought he said that there is another side to Trump, a private side in addition to the one you see in public speeches and interviews. That is true of most people who have been in the public eye for a long time - yes, even the ones you like. :)

[narciso]

exactly when you're in the duke and duke cloak room, you give them a look at the crop report,

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

Buck,

You know what they make in SRC, right? Makes Dr. Strangelove look like a romance novel.

[Man Tran]

Heh. After the talk about Ivory, we have an interesting situation. She's been volunteering to assist the HS tennis coach with the girls on the varsity team. The coach is a bit of the dweeb and the girls needed a lot of encouraging. Well, after a particularly enthusiastic pep talk a couple of days ago where some parents praised her efforts (coach not present), she gets a scolding email from the coach copied to all the mukity mucks. She read me her carefully written response to us over the phone that should put him in his place. We'll see. The girls loss if they dump her.

[Captain Hate]

I thing Romney was being himself when he failed to defend his wife and lost the election.

I will never cease to be [Redacted] off by that. Brave Sir Willard didn't even have to smudge his Dudley DoRight uniform to do that; I'm sure Sununu was chomping at the bit to verbally slap that [Redacted] Hilary Rosen around loudly loudly and longly until everybody in the country knew her as the [Redacted] [Redacted] who made fun of people with MS. But no no no no; he couldn't go OFF MESSAGE because his team of mensas just knew how to capture that wonderful runner up prize.

Idiots, every [Redacted] one of 'em starting at the top.

[Buckeye]

You know what they make in SRC, right? Makes Dr. Strangelove look like a romance novel.

Happy to do my small part, and I sincerely mean that.

The Berlin Wall didn't come down because we were wusses.

[narciso]

yes they don't the set of steak knives,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/22/extremists-free-to-travel-to-uk-because-eu-states-cannot-agree-o/

tell us again zaphod why it's such a great deal

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

And yet the guys in white shoes hold the Masters across the river:)

[narciso]

thermonuclear weapons, neutron bombs, the wiki is unclear,

[Momto2]

a private side in addition to the one you see in public speeches and interviews. That is true of most people who have been in the public eye for a long time - yes, even the ones you like.
I will say that being a flight attendant I saw and heard tales of many famous people who were not what they appeared to be in public.

[Jack is Back! (As An Officially Declared Islamaphobe)]

narc,

The triggers. Tritium.

[narciso]

I figured it was something like that,

[Thomas Collins]

Here's a sample of what Ivory should do to dweeb coach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sAgSIQRx6Q

[Threadkiller]

Senator Ted Cruz Reveals New Campaign Strategy – “Become More Likable”…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/04/22/senator-ted-cruz-reveals-new-campaign-strategy-become-more-likable/

He is just being himself.

[narciso]

ot, are the folks at people, blind, rhetorical.

http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20998070_20999365,00.html#30477638

[maryrose]

TK
You used to annoy me with posts like the above
Morally,ethically,spiritually and humanly Ted Cruz is 10 times the person that Donald Trump is.
You will realize it in time but at that point it will be too late.

[maryrose]

Momto2
Were the celebrities nicer or a disappointment?

[maryrose]

Captain
So all candidates abandon principle and stoop to the lowest common denominator behavior like the Clintons and the Obamas?

[Threadkiller]

It is never too late for Ted to come clean.

[maryrose]

A mm Romney can defend herself she is not some weak person.
That is not why Romney lost
The election was stolen and Dems lied and cheated about the Tea Party applications and Benghazi in order to win.

[Threadkiller]

Still defending Romney.

[Porchlight]

The Dems did their part to steal, but Romney did his part to lose. To his credit, I think he believed he was doing his best.

Morally,ethically,spiritually and humanly Ted Cruz is 10 times the person that Donald Trump is.

I think very differently. Only time will sort it out - I agree with you there.

[Miss Marple]

Maryrose,

None of us know the real person behind the public facade.

Donald Trump might be a complete mountebank.

Ted Cruz could be a complete phony.

I do not pretend to know what is in their minds, and neither should you.

[narciso]

so it seems they borrowed the gimmick from the last transformer film, the vaccuum that sucks up everything and rains it down on other places, for the ID sequel,

[narciso]

well it's not a new pattern for him, as we found out with the chattanooga shooting,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3423822/posts

[narciso]

well your first mistake was listening to howie kurtz,

https://pjmedia.com/blog/dopey-reporting-is-the-real-colorado-gop-delegate-story/

[narciso]

I doubt it's been true in recent times,

https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2016/04/20/once-we-had-some-muslim-friends/2/

since 1973, to clarify the interval,

[clarice]

Nytol--don't kill each other.

[Truthbetold]

Clarice knows far more than she is sharing!

[Johns_Creek_Bill]

Theo,

Regarding your response to Ignatz's post opining on the inevitability of a civil conflict - the side with the guns would win.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Armed conflicts are generally won by the side with youth and vigor.--

Armed conflicts are generally won by the side with the arms.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

:)

[Truthbetold]

JCB

Are you talking about the fact that agencies like the EPA are militarizing?

[Buckeye]

http://youtu.be/8ZdGu52D8_Q

Bryan Sutton plays every instrument on this cut. Impressive.

[Momto2]

maryrose Were the celebrities nicer or a disappointment?

That was interesting - some of the ones I expected to be the nicest were the biggest disappointments. Dick Clark was probably the most shockingly rude and nasty. Bill Cosby was in a semi-disguise and avoided everyone but Willard Scott was up in the aisles signing autographs and making everyone laugh!